Judith Kegan Gardiner

Judith Kegan Gardiner has been an editor of Feminist Studies since 1989. A professor of English and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago, she is currently Director of its Gender and Women's Studies Program.

Dr. Gardiner's teaching interests include feminist and psychoanalytic theory, twentieth-century writing by women, seventeenth-century English literature, feminist pedagogy, sexuality and gender, and masculinity studies. Her edited books include, Provoking Agents: Gender and Agency in Theory and Practice (University of Illinois Press, 1995), Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory: New Directions (Columbia University Press, 2002), and the International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities (with co-editors Michael Flood, Bob Pease, and Keith Pringle, Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2007). Recent publications have focused on Doris Lessing's Golden Notebook, the movie "South Park," and masculinity in feminist theory.

Dr. Gardiner is one of the original founders of the Gender & Women's Studies Program at UIC. She earned an M.A. (1964) and a Ph.D. (1968) in English from Columbia University and A.B. (1962) from Radcliffe College.